The Book Of Cities

Book of the Week

In this attractive coffee table book, Dodd and Donald take readers on a fascinating journey, in longitudinal order, from London to Cambridge via some of the world’s most evocative destinations.

Many of the entries demand inclusion – New York, Rio, Paris, Rome, Cairo – but some are obscure. Nuuk, for example, the capital of Greenland, with a population of 13,700 who have a propensity for eating seabirds.

This 512-pager is not a guide book. It offers an insight into a city’s character, rather than its physical attributes as a tourist destination: a book to fire the imagination of even the most committed armchair traveller.

Steve Jones, The Observer, 24 October 2004

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